Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Greater Wisconsin Committeehttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/greater-wisconsin-political-fund/Stories or blog posts about Greater Wisconsin Committee from Politifact.comen-usThu, 24 Aug 2017 06:00:00 -0400Ten NRA and gun fact checkshttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2017/aug/24/ten-nra-and-gun-fact-checks/The NRA Carry Guard Expo, a National Rifle Association event for &quot;personal protection, concealed carry and defense tactics,&quot; is being held Aug. 25-27, 2017 in Milwaukee. Here are 10 of our NRA- and gun-related fact checks. The National Rifle Association was &quot;founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect freed slaves from the Ku Klux Klan.&quot; Our rating: Pants on Fire. This claim was made in 2013 by Harry Alford, president and chief executive officer of the D.C.-based National Black Chamber of Commerce and was shared by the Milwaukee County Republican Party. We found the NRA itself said it was ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2017/aug/24/ten-nra-and-gun-fact-checks/">>>More</a>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 06:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2017/aug/24/ten-nra-and-gun-fact-checks/How Scott Walker and Mary Burke have fared on the Truth-O-Meterhttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/27/true-or-false-scott-walker-and-mary-burke-typicall/In Scott Walker&rsquo;s third race for governor in four years, neither side has made a habit of settling for Half Trues. &nbsp; That&rsquo;s the bottom line on PolitiFact Wisconsin&rsquo;s Truth-O-Meter, where we&rsquo;ve rated nearly 90 claims in the governor&rsquo;s contest since late 2013. Most statements have come down pretty clearly on the False or True side of the meter, in contrast to the 2012 recall election. In that race, won by Walker, nearly one third of claims we rated came down in the middle. The current trend doesn&rsquo;t surprise us given the high stakes in Walker&rsquo;s neck-and-neck re-election bid against ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/27/true-or-false-scott-walker-and-mary-burke-typicall/">>>More</a>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:06:19 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/27/true-or-false-scott-walker-and-mary-burke-typicall/Claims in the Scott Walker-Mary Burke race about educationhttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/27/claims-mary-burke-scott-walker-race-about-schools/When it comes to education, Act 10, private school vouchers and public school funding have been key topics in statements we&#39;ve rated on the Truth-O-Meter. Here is a look at some key claims from the race. * * * My Act 10 reforms have &quot;saved the taxpayers some $3 billion.&quot; -- Scott Walker, Monday, July 21st, 2014 in a news article Mostly True: Requiring most state and local government employees to contribute more to their pensions has saved public employers more than $3 billion, including $2.35 billion in pension costs. Those costs, of course, have been shifted to public employees. ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/27/claims-mary-burke-scott-walker-race-about-schools/">>>More</a>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:51:14 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/27/claims-mary-burke-scott-walker-race-about-schools/Our September High Five: Top three items were rated Truehttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/01/high-five-top-three-are-true/Beer, deficits, businesses, jobs, taxes. One through five, fact-checks on those topics were the most popular among our readers during September 2014. Step into the High Five Bar. 1. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan says Miller Brewing and Anheuser-Busch are no longer American companies Rating: True. The Janesville congressman made the claim about the parent companies of Milwaukee-founded Miller and St. Louis-born Anheuser-Busch while discussing inversions, the practice of U.S.-based companies buying foreign firms and then relocating their own headquarters to another country to enjoy lower taxes. South African Breweries bought Miller in 2002, creating SABMiller. Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev was created ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/01/high-five-top-three-are-true/">>>More</a>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:09:50 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/oct/01/high-five-top-three-are-true/Fact-checking Gov. Scott Walker&#39;s new bookhttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/17/factchecking-scott-walker-new-book/In his memoir due out Tuesday, Gov. Scott Walker recounts how he secretly crafted a plan &quot;that gets rid of the unions and eliminates collective bargaining.&quot; He dwells on the state of state government&rsquo;s finances prior to his election and argues for how much better they are now. And he takes a few pokes at President Obama&rsquo;s Washington. In the process, Walker makes some new claims but also touches on statements that, in one form or another, we&rsquo;ve previously rated on the Truth-O-Meter. Here&rsquo;s a rundown of some of those claims from an advance copy of &quot;Unintimidated: A Governor&#39;s Story ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/17/factchecking-scott-walker-new-book/">>>More</a>Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/17/factchecking-scott-walker-new-book/